Wych v. Gaines’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1962
3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The action of jactitation of title has for its object the repose of titles. It is brought by the possessor only. Its tendency is to force the party not in possession, who yet asserts a right out of court, to come into court and disclaim or assert the right judicially. That end is attained whenever the party accused of slandering the possessor’s title brings suit to test the title before a competent court, when that is done, there is no pretence to say there is a slander of title. And it is not for the defendant in all cases to choose his forum. If the United States Court has jurisdiction,- the party in possession sued there, cannot come into a State court of concurrent jurisdiction, and by an action of jactitation compel his adversary to sue him in the state court also for the same cause of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riley v. Kaempfer
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.